Tuesday, 16 May 2017

Well at long last some rain, it is over a month since we had rain so very welcome.
Everything is really looking refreshed now.
We are having a fund raising day tomorrow at the Bowling Club so have done quite a few seedlings and plants for this, hope it's dry and that we sell all the plants and baking.

Delighted that the Dahlia & Fuschia cuttings are all doing well.

The deep Purple Rhody is now in full flower, as it is near to the sunset yellow one they look great.
The John Downey Crab Apple tree is setting plenty of fruit, hope it keeps Honey Fungus free, I would hate it to go the way of my Bramley.

Tuesday, 2 May 2017

MY how time flies, May already.
I am now hardening off the plants in the greenhouse, I have grown extra for the bowling club Fund Day, including Iceberg Lettuce.
The John Downie Crab Apple is a mass of flowers should be a good crop, didn't make any last year with Jack being so ill so will make extra for the family.The yellow Rhododendrons are spectacular this year.
That Yucca had to go, it was so dangerous, it certainly did not like having the spikes trimmed off, became very sad looking, what a job Scott and Alan had removing it, just could not believe the size of the rootball, thankfully its all gone
now.
The Begonias in the greenhouse are now growling well as are the new Dahlias --Hayley Jane. looking forward to seeing these in flower.

One of the perennials I am growing from seed for myself and the club are Rudbeckia, never grown them before so hope the are as good as the picture.

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Thought it was about time I listed the plants I grow detailing which grew well for me, or not as the case may be, in my Southport rather sandy garden.

My main hobby is bowling, so time is always scarce, sometimes feel I should bowl less and garden more!!.

Like every one here the first thing is to enrich the ground with bone meal and farmyard manure, this has been very much the answer.

As I am retired my first thoughts were shrubs, evergreen when possible and not fast growing, though that severe winter killed 4 well established shrubs including a well established Ceanothus, this last rainy summer the rest all grew like crazy as of course did the weeds.

My first love are Fuchsia and I must admit I grow far too many but they never let me down, I do expect an awful lot from them, flowering from May till late Autumn, I will list the ones that do particularly well on my very sunny patio, (sun what’s that you say).

I grow amongst other plants, Dahlias, the dinner plate variety have been exceptional.

Thanks go to my son Scott for his photography and importantly his help with the heavy work in the garden.